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egypt bans file sharing of portal you tube for a month over an anti islam video amid renewed violent protests against president morsi. i want to be brought in alive which is something. force one or the u.s. government wants under any circumstances the third day of what may be the l.a.p.d. largest manhunt ever brings no result as the armed and dangerous disappears into the mountains. and tens of thousands of trade unionists take to the irish streets for a countrywide anti austerity protest despite a recent decision of the european central bank to ease the country's debt burden.
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and broadcasting live and direct from our studios in moscow this is our team sean thomas here top stories and egypt court has ruled it to ban the video sharing web site you tube for a month for hosting a controversial anti islam film is comes as violence returned to the streets of the gyptian cities on friday as protesters vent their anger against president mohamed morsi artie's bell true reports from cairo. at the moment there's been a lot of condemnation of the by protest movements to see you keep it as a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the security forces it's also an indication of an islam mind zation all of egypt has been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in the last few weeks including a religious edict calling opposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking to the egyptian. justifying sex more attacks on egyptian
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protesters into. what we really feel here in egypt this will only fuel for the violence on the streets we've had a very restive country here in egypt in the last few weeks especially since the second anniversary of the journey one hundred five revolution when thousands gathered in the streets of egypt complaining that their president had mostly had not made key changes in demands of the revolution friday we saw more protests as part of friday's day of dignity thousands of protesters gathered across the main rallying points in this in the country which devolved into clashes between on top of protesters and security forces in the capital here by the presidential palace. the building with molotov there pushed by take us and water cannons and so bloody of violence in the in the governor with unconfirmed deaths in couple shake as well as violent clashes and. we have more protests on the horizon with further expected violence we don't see this finishing anytime soon which is belcher reporting for us there now egyptian journalist and blogger while it's counter says
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the government's crackdown on internet freedom brings egypt back to the mubarak era . what the muslim brotherhood right now is trying to do is restore autocratic rule and much like the mubarak method of governing and i think the way the political actor see it is that mubarak was not ruthless enough and did not clamp down on freedoms enough to sustain his rule and this is what they're trying to remedy the you tube verdict comes in light of. you know many other decisions that clamp down on freedoms and it's no surprise that they will try to install the infrastructure necessary to clamp down on. various websites that they see as a threat to their rule one other thing we've seen as well is admins of facebook pages who are critical of the muslim brotherhood are being targeted and we've we're seeing more of these kind of clampdowns either in the physical realm and now they're moving on to doing it technically through you know through you tube and
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various other sites we can expect more of that. and it's not only egypt that has been rocked by anti regime clashes tensions i have asked a lady in the cradle of the arab spring uprising tunisia later in the program we'll get an expert opinion on if unrest could give way to another revolution. and became two years of protests bring a political change find out what the chances are of a renewal of dialogue between of the government and the opposition in bahrain that and much more later in the hour. los angeles police are now into a third day of what is to believed to be the department's largest ever manhunt for the ex cop gone rogue christopher dorner who is wanted for allegedly killing three people remains the last for the police somewhere in the mountains of southern california according to dorner is online manifesto a highly trained x. l.a.p.d. officer with a military background has
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a hit list with around forty names on it dorner has effectively declared war on his former colleagues accusing them of corruption racism and brutality the investigative journalist michael rupert who used to work in the l.a.p.d. says the department also has many skeletons in its cause. i don't condone what's happened and i want to violence and killing to end but more important i want him to be brought in alive which is something i do not think that l.a.p.d. law enforcement or the u.s. government wants under any circumstances with regard to his specific allegations about his case and i'm currently reviewing legal documents that are becoming available online i have to tell you that with regard to his allegations about a rich trial board hearings and and very egregious unprofessional cover up excessive force but also management mouth to mouth these perjury and a lot of other serious things i believe in one hundred percent the l.a.p.d. has been shown and has
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a consistent cultural problem with racism cover up and cronyism within the department that has victimized i think and probably driven out a great many good officers i left for similar reasons head to our team dot com and join the debate on christopher dorner you can also follow the latest updates and reading artie's insight on why a former police officer would turn into a vigilante. the moscow court has ordered a place to place russian opposition leader sergei under house arrest until april
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sixth the court's decision came after he violated travel restrictions while under investigation. is accused of plotting mass disturbances in the country and inciting violence during protests artes and he said now he has more on the man in question here merged with the protests as a leader just over a year ago here in russia when anti-government rallies really took off in unprecedented numbers and we quickly became one of the main faces but he's been in politics for much longer really in the late one nine hundred ninety s. he ran for an m.p. seat for a party called the stalinist bloc for the u.s.s.r. and today he's head of the left front which is a young radical communist organization and that's actually how they describe themselves and they're most known publicly for calling for revolution now during the recent protests was detained on multiple occasions for violating police orders and calling on other demonstrators to do the same let's listen to some of the
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things he calls the crowd to do you love oh you're. going to go when you've got. to. do is just. now charges against a very in june he was found guilty of attacking a young woman at one of these. protests and several months ago in october a russian t.v. station aired a documentary which featured hidden camera footage allegedly showing solve trying to raise foreign funding and organize riots here in moscow and other regions throughout the country i'll go opposition activists had initially viewed him as the leader of the sort of face of their movement he often now fails to see eye to eye with fellow activists most recently at a funeral of another activist scuffles broke out between about self and fellow protesters because they were so upset he was trying to use the funeral as a p r platform take
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a look at the scuffles now he's under house arrest but being arrested has really become somewhat of both so this if you could say he's been taken into jail without detention twelve times in the last twelve months will now see how being under house arrest for those travel restrictions and the violations plays out parties and he's in our reporting for us there now of course as always will be keeping a close eye on this story online head to our to dot com to learn if the latest arrest may be a signal for the russian opposition to brace itself for further tension with the government. while unemployment rises in the u.k. and wages are being cut and the house of commons has announced a vacancy for a new dream job and of the lawmakers are looking to use taxpayers' cash to pay for their caffeine fix parties boyko in london has more on what some are calling a case of cops and robbers. the house of commons is
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looking for someone to join their team of burma reste is to basically serve hot fancy beverages to politicians now the job pays overt twenty thousand pounds per year which to put into context for our international viewers is over thirty thousand dollars per year if we compare that job to other public sector jobs we've got policeman his salary is have recently been cut starting salaries they now start on nineteen thousand pounds a year similarly with soldiers who start on over seventeen just over seventeen thousand pounds per year so you've got frontline jobs that carry risks to your life the people protecting the safety of british citizens that are being paid less than somebody who is serving coffee to politicians one of the police federation representatives took to twitter to ask where they could apply for such a nice job in parliament because it's obviously a lot safer and it's paying more than some of the frontline police officers but i
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spoke to the former editor of the police tribute to find out what the morale all is like among the police officers amidst these revelations well morale is already rock bottom amongst police officers and i knew i was because of the attacks on their pay and conditions that pensions and then they find out as you say the politicians who could like the rest of us made coffee themselves and let's not let's remember that the coffee they have will be heavily subsidized by us the taxpayers a lot of people's wages being either frozen or slashed just like the police officers we hit the streets of london a little bit earlier to find out whether people in london think that someone who serves coffee to politicians should be making more money than a front line police officer let's take a look in my coffee twenty grand government where you are sorry i did so i'll just go there from washington research coffee give me the most is. yes totally no so i
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said drink tonight again tonight is basically a kick in the boy because they're just being ridiculous and advertisers and they should be ashamed of themselves for doing so that shows just how out of touch the politicians are with the problems of ordinary brits and of course not critics saying that with the austerity measures we fighting for a lot of people in the u.k. and pundits have made with a capsule of boiling water and some instant coffee and of course our news team is working hard to bring you our top stories and the latest information i'll be back with more of that coming up after a short break you're watching our tree. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives with. this with this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about they were really good public health
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campaigns that people were really focused on this problem you certainly should be able to have a lot less a child a lot less human suffering. and you're with r t welcome back tens of thousands of people have marched through
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cities in ireland in a massive show of anger against severe austerity measures marko peter pollie a financial advisor says ireland's situation is one of the most difficult in the e.u. and the dublin is holding of the blocks a presidency is unlikely to make things any better. i think it's going to be difficult for the artist to get them to refuse going through that are going to campaigning. and. difficult because then of course other come. from really. from the. from the europeans the irish catholics have ended up. going to bail out most countries to the bank and therefore. a great deal. with the president on they're going to be able to. much pressure or much influence. in
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your time because the power remains of the. europe and. the german accent either you have integration or you have a breakup of. these problems. and sticking with this story angry crowds on the streets of ireland may spoil the mood of the e.u. leaders as they celebrate a historic budget deal cutting the blocks spending for the first time now it's the european parliament's turn to have its final say on the agreement and the look set to block in the budget plan after a secret vote in what is seen as a revolt against e.u. leaders economist james midway weighs in. constitutionally they're well within their rights to reject the thing and send it back and have another go at writing this now whether they actually do that will probably depend on the fine print in the budget or already there is
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a new parliament to said he would be able to support the steel and the heads of one of the major groups in the parliament the socialist group said there are likely to be supported so it's going to be a rocky ride i think this budget over the next few months cameron's right talk about this being like a reduction in a credit card limits and of course you can have your credit card limit reduced and still spend korean spending more money now that's almost certainly what's going to happen to britain over the next few years the amounts that britain is expected to pay into the main e.u. fund will increase as a result of increased payments to a new member countries so he's going to pretend that this will show how britain can still be a force in europe how we can push the rest of europe around this glosses over the fact of course that he would have got anywhere in this without the support of the angle of merkel in particular so he can he can try to push that line that you know he knows what he's doing to europe and that we don't need to go so far as to step out of the european union but i wouldn't see the more euro skeptic members of his own party being particularly impressed by any of this the raid fixing of banks or
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the libel or rate in britain is the subject of an expanding investigation into just how widespread the practice was artie's max kaiser will be looking at the issue in depth next hour but here's a quick preview. i'm going to avoid that c. word for today just for variety i mean if i thought the t. word is being prosecuted in this country or america i would imagine if i thought it or drone sent up this thanks frank jenkins over at barclays bank and exploded innocent past and splattered on the wall i thought that would have any effect if i thought the governor would give a flying head about their own population i would mention the t word but i don't know because they don't. as the political crisis escalates in tunisia thousands have rallied to their in support of the ruling islamist party the crowds marched in the capital tunis shouting anti french slogans and accusing the former colonial ruler of interfering
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in its politics this comes a day after the funeral of an opposition politician was marred by clashes with protesters blaming the government and the police for his death violence erupted near the cemetery and spread to anti regime rallies in the city causing security forces to fire tear gas and make arrests and despite authorities managing to keep huge crowds away from the city center for now author and activist for rosie manji believes young may take a turn for the worse. to use its ensuing a profound crisis a crisis of the credibility of the existing new arrangements for holding and any. critique of the way to which that it will create it i think there are signs that this easily disintegrate into some kind of civil war going to hopefully it won't happen and we were made to the popular movement organize to prevent one of those friday to use the euro to external support for example by the
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qatari government of the right wing fundamentalists and it remains to be seen whether the present government will take any action against these terror groups. and it has been almost two years since anti regime protests broke out in another country involved in the arab spring rain there the government and the opposition have finally agreed to resume dialogue but while the opposition bears a little trust in the authorities after months of persecution the chances of an end to the political deadlock are low. looks into how dissent is being gagged in the country. if you look through any pro-government newspaper in bahrain you did an impression that the government has nothing to hide the news of an uprising of the opposition is dominating the front page and if you look through it you'll see other stories about the political discourse in the country the country's information minister insists bahrain has no problems with people speaking out. for if in
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freedom of expression of our english very high because it is guaranteed by the constitution moreover there is a law to be issued soon that further guarantees yes we have a problem related to banning so much zines but that's to protect bahrain from six year in ethnic problems and violence only and not any other reason. but this is what happened when we tried several opposition websites having looked through these pages later we did not notice any extremist overtones and so you see from bahrain center for human rights believes the government is deliberately attempting to silence views different to its own center for human rights which i work for website is a blog we have almost more than four hundred website out of block or more the most of them are human rights. political website although of certain beheaded our block we have only facebook and twitter there are many which is not
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a blog site yet spoke to us on the back over two week prison term for what was called breaking the law on public gatherings several weeks later he was arrested again the editor in chief of bahrain the only independent newspaper says this is how things are in his country if you speak out if you express yourself you are expressing yourself at your own risks people are brave enough now to speak out but they do that and they could be punished one day you could be put in jail you could end up like the builder job three years because if you tweeted something. social networking came of age during the uprisings of recent years a fact not lost on bahrain's leaders who have watched almost daily street protests and an unusual drop in web traffic through the country big by an american internet morning tour leaves human rights activists here wondering exactly who the constitutional right to expression really applies to. let's ski
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reporting from the kingdom of bahrain now take a look at some other international stories making headlines around the world for you this hour at least six people have been killed as the ferocious snowstorm neemo sweeps across the northeast of the united states the blizzard has already caused a massive blackouts cutting power to more than seven hundred thousand homes the government declared a state of emergency in the region more than five thousand flights have also been cancelled. clashes have broken out on the streets of india's capital after a pakistani man convicted of a terrorist attack on parliament in new delhi in two thousand and one was executed mohammad group. after the president rejected his mercy petition the execution sparked violence between protesters and supporters of the ruling the high profile terrorist attacks claimed more than a dozen lives while increasing tension between india and pakistan. over two
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thousand people took to the streets of athens to protest against the far right golden dawn party the marchers chanted slogans against the golden dawn which has been widely criticized for its neo fascist policies the party has gained significant support since the economic crisis broke out in the country artie's international news agency ruptly provides the footage of the rally. that ukrainian protest group femen has made it to the berlin film festival but only as far as the red carpet the notorious activists were staging a topless protest against female circumcision but police quickly removed the half naked women from the venue parties where a harsh mistress has been quizzing people in new york to find out if they would be ready to bare it all for a good car. a
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new york city it's legal for ladies to protest topless so where are the boobies this week let's talk about that part of the body even though it's legal it's still private. but don't you think that would draw a lot of attention to the cause yeah but then again you know the tracks are all grow sometimes to what it attracts you dare. i would want to say. would you ever consider protesting topless for a reason yeah what would be the reason. you would go topless for that yeah would you do it well maybe you are not truth but do you think french girls would do it more often than american girls i think so why is that what's wrong with the kind of crazy it would be a way to get he was attention but i personally wouldn't do it i mean someone knows
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and i mean do you think that it would be little it was or help because. i don't know if you're doing much it's will bring more awareness i guess people will look so it's not what protesting is all about. let them out ladies the bottom line is going topless is a sure fire way to bring attention to your cause so ladies you might want to consider that the next time you suit up for your big rally. and coming up after the break we take an in-depth look at the impact of the hiv aids epidemic on the african-american population.
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secretary of state hillary clinton recently testified to congress in regards to the attack on the us consulate was killed an american ambassador in benghazi libya during the testimony couldn't rather calmly said things like that the revolutions that sprang up during the arab spring like in libya where the events in bali have created instability and safe havens for terrorists and she made it clear that there is no doubt that the algerian terrorists had weapons from libya so the us secretary has basically admitted that the actions of the usa and nato have caused a mess instability that has allowed the seeds of terrorism to grow when the justification for most of the actions in the muslim world is to stop evil dictators who harbor terrorists or spread chatting to mock recy if libya would have been left
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alone algerian terrorists wouldn't be getting any weapons from it now this is like an exterminator accidentally or maybe on purpose actually feeding the roaches in your basements that there are ten times more of them and then saying that he has to keep working because he's the only one who can get rid of the roaches people like hillary clinton who support funding brutal jihad it's rebel groups to overthrow governments to somehow bring about stability and democracy are either dismally stupid or consciously running a very brutal con game but that's just my opinion. path to start this strange new disease affecting healthy young americans looks like
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this a period between the first outbreak of aids summer nine hundred eighty one and i today five not only were people coming down with a it's and dying and so forth but nobody knew who had it or who didn't now more than thirty years since its arrival the face of aids looks like this but the social stigma of this disease lingers persons get educated who but in the back of their mind in times he may still be a little dirty secret the biggest part of this little secret is its growth across black america as in a zoo has gotten a hold in the african-american community it's it's it's is right here is that spreading out that way described in the african-american from a collective silence has enabled it to spread across gender and sexual orientation african-americans tend to have sex with african-americans it's black men and black men usually it's black men and black women usually we're spreading
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death among ourselves. both black men down and women are at much greater risk of getting age i.v. compared to their white counterparts youth as well as adults. we began our investigation by looking at men who account for seventy percent of all new infections among blacks but what was surprising is that it's not just men who have sex with men who need to be concerned about hiv. at. i did everything possible to get in this position.

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